Sospel
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-Maritimes | |
| Arrondissement | Nice | |
| Canton | Contes | |
| Community association | Riviera Française | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 53 ' N , 7 ° 27' E | |
| height | 257-1,737 m | |
| surface | 62.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,831 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 61 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 06380 | |
| INSEE code | 06136 | |
| Website | www.sospel06.com | |
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Sospel ( in Provencal "Sospèu" and in Italian "Sospello") is a commune with 3831 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in southeastern France in the Alpes-Maritimes department about 20 kilometers north of Menton , in the Provence-Alpes-Côte region d'Azur . The city is located at about 350 m above sea level on the edge of the Mercantour National Park on the French branch of the Tendabahn and is traversed by the Bévéra river.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 2321 | 2582 | 1828 | 2171 | 2592 | 2885 | 3394 | 3815 |
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Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Sospel
Sospel has a medieval old town. An 11th-century bridge crosses the Bévéra River and has a tower that used to be a customs house. The bridge was badly damaged in 1944 and rebuilt after the war until 1953. The central square is Place Saint-Nicolas with the Saint-Michel cathedral . The church from the middle of the 17th century is a mix of French classical and Italian baroque styles and a Romanesque bell tower from a previous building.
Evening mood in Sospel
Saint-Michel cathedral
Interior of the cathedral
River view
Row of houses in Sospel
Old town Place Saint-Nicolas
Hiking trails
Sospel is a stage on the French long-distance hiking trail GR 52A , the 'Sentier Panoramique du Mercantour', and on the GR 52 . This is where two Via Alpina paths meet: the 'red path' leads through Sospel, which crosses every single Alpine state in 161 stages from Trieste to Monaco , and the 'blue path' of the Via Alpina, which begins in the Valais Alps , ends .
traffic
- Tendabahn
- Train des Merveilles
- Historical salt route Turin - Nice (mules, donkeys)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Alpes-Maritimes . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-071-X , pp. 909-924.
- Sabine Bade, Wolfram Mikuteit, Grande Randonnée 52A. Le Sentier panoramique du Mercantour . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-937304-78-6 .
- Sabine Bade, Wolfram Mikuteit, On the Via Alpina through the Maritime Alps and Ligurian Alps , Fernwege.de, Roxheim, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937304-50-2
